Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-24
REAL ESTATE.
An Active Market for a
Week Past.
SALES OVER s1.5oo,ooo.
Increase Of 100000 Over the Pre-
vious Seven Days-New
Buildings.

Whatever else may be said about Los
Angeles. there can be no doubt but the
real estate business is very active. Sur
face appearances are deceiving. for while
il has appeared to be quiet during the
psst week, in reality an immense busi-
ness was transacted. footing up to over
. million and a half dollars. an increase
of about 100000 over the week
previous. II this activity continues
there will not be any land lett that has
not been sold over and over again.
Prices are shown to have been doubled
during the past year on almost all city
property. Tho county fathers are hold
ing the land which belongs to Los Ange-
les county and only on Tuesday
refused On offer Of 5000 per front foot
for land on Buena Vista street, for which
they expect to obtain nearly double as
soon 6 the new courthouse is built.
While property owners are anxious TO
have Board OF Trade building erected,
they do not appear to be wiling to take
Oh much from the asking price of the
lots offered. When the bids were opened
on Monday night one or two offered con
cessions and Mr.. Bryson offered to take
4l4, 900 in bonds secured on the lot he
desired TO sell. The trustees are now
advcrtising for more bids, and there can
be hardly doubt but the building will
be put mp shortly in some prominent
location, The Callaghan Block is almost
ready for occupation and numerous
othsr. buildings are under way or pro-.
iected.
Sales during the past week aggregated
- follows: March 18Th, Sl48. $50; 10th,
$228, ,249; 18th, S37O.034; 18Th, $780,
76l; 10th, $25l. IT'S; 2lst, $23l 907; 22d,
SOS, sos. Total for the week, 81, ,599,-
l24.
THE PRINCIPAL SALES.
The principal transfers were as fol.
lows: Esther c Shugg to D M Dorman,
3.86 acres south of Old Los Nietos road
and east of San Gabriel river, SIS, 600;
Mary M Thornton to A G Shafer, SW4
Of NW4 Sec II, 7 2 s, R l3 w, SIG. 600;
William Wood to Obed G WeDger, lots
II and AZ, Los Angeles Fruit Lsnd As
sooiation tract, 5000; Isaias w He'll
man to C e Mackey-Lots IL, IL and
l3, block IL, Ord's survey, 5000; g A
Clarke to Arthur Noble, west half of lot
26 and east half of lot 27, west subdi-
vision of Lick tract, $4,000; Amos D
Truessell to John George Blum+r, part
of lot y, Sierra Madre tract, $1,000; A
o Porter, Il G Bennett, II Watts, s
Washburn, A X M,Quilling, Alfred
WakeIy and p M Green to Caspar Thos
sv,o ont 9 Panoho Tn
Canada. l89 60 acres in Rancho San
Pascual, all interest of tirst par.
ties in cement ditch through
which waters from above de.
scribed lands are conducted, $4,000;
Nat Wolfe 10 G 81 Dunsmoor, lot in or
adjacent lot 6. Berry & Elliott tract,
Pasadena, $l2. 500; Charles Legge to D
r Van Liew, agreement to convey lots
2, 3, 4. s, 6, 7 and Legge's lower tract.
Pasadens. $5397; James Bridges to
Frances Eliza Bridges, lot "a block 8,
Rmbody 4 Lacy subdn E L A, lot 2
block 81. Z s Palmer subdn E L A, and
lot 28 block l, Platter subdn of Messick
tract and lots and 7 block 5, E L A.
$4,000; Henry M Porter to E W Re d,
10 acres in NW4 of NW4 sec 80, TIP l
s., r Is w, $4,000; R Williams to w
G McGregory aud d Confer, agreement
TO convey lots l, 2, 8 and 4, Williams
Home tract. $40, 500; Delos Arnold to
George 2 Lyman and Frank d Stevens,
part Of lot 7 block B. San Pascual tract,
$3.50; Adam X McQuilling to H G Ben
nett, trustee, agre. ment to convey lois
II. is, l6, II. 2l, %, %, "a, 25 aid 26,
re-plat OF McQuilling's subdn, Pasadena,
$45, 900; G 4 Mackey to Webster
Batohelier. 81 of Ell of NE4 of SCI sec
~, Tp 2S, X IA w, $4,000; j L homer
to L e Mosher, agreement to convey
east half of lot 7 block o, San Pascual
tract, $l2. 900; Mrs Margaret A Forres-
tai and R chard Forrestal to Mrs Mary
C TAYLOR, part of lot block H, San
Pascual tract, $95OO; Adam Becker to
Charles E Langtord, lots l, 2. aud
block A, Baneslell tract, $4,000; Gardner
Il Smith to I B Lamber, agreement to
convey 2S 90 acres in Ro San Pascual,
$40, l20; b Lambert to Willard Barn.
hardt and s w Osterhout, agreement
to convey 2S 90 acres in RoSan Pascual,
$l5,90O. C White Mortimer, trustee, to
b Marshall Wotkyns and Earnest H
Lockwood. Mortimer's addition to s
Pasadena, $4,000; A X Wocott to
Henry R Cooper. lot l aud acres al
jacent lot l, Chapman 4 Glassell tract,
Ro Santiago de Santa Ana. $4,000;
Samuel Stratton to George G Gran, lois
5, 6, and s, Web.ter & Stratton's
subdn, Pasadena, $l2 600; w E r ,gers
to Mrs r Lee Noble. lots %. 43 and
vest half of lot 46, west part of Lick
tract, $l2,500, r Millard to G
Howes, trustee. Ell of SW4 of SCI sec
25. To l s. R IA W, $4,000; II D
Bacon to Raymond Improvement Co..
part of Marengo tract, Ro San Pascual,
$3.50, 600; Million D Painter to d Gal.
braith, agreement to convey l9. SO acres
on north side of Washington street,
Pasadena, $l5, 1888; James W Shanklin
to Jesse Yarnell and H T Hazard, agree.
ment to convey east fractional half of
secs 20 and 80, and west half of secs 2S
and 80, TIP 3 s, R 9 w. $4,000;
John e Murray to Fl G Harper,
lot 9 block 25, Huber tract, $40 900;
Henry C Lewis to Simcoe Chapman
10 acres in block @, Painter &
Balls addition. Pasadena, SIS, 800;
A G Cook to Philip D Armour-Lot
IA block L. Mott tract, $1,000;
/ O Matthewson and Mrs Annie Mat.
thewson to Mrs Alasan Stephens
Part of lot 2, Beardslee trac
Rancho Azusa de Duarte. Sl4,OOO
Susan L Mills to C R Bates-Agree-
nent to convey part Of Ro San Jose,
i described in book 90, page 253 of deeds.
$500; John Bryson Sr to Los Angeles
National Bank-Lot northeast corner
First and Spring streets, Sl25, 600;
Fredk Moses to Bertha Sanders and
Henrv Susskind-Apreement to convex